Michael Brown Chairmaker

I sailed from England my homeland to America 1985, stopping in Bermuda to repair hurricane damage. Where I met my vacationing future wife Theresa. After spending 7 years in her home state of New York, we took to our boat to find a place to settle. We bought some woodland on the edge of Beard Creek, and I started to selectively cut trees to build our home. These I sawed into posts and beams, and following the finest practices of generations past, I raised a frame of pine, oak, poplar, maple and sycamore, connected with wooden pegs, that glowed in the setting sun and cut right to my heart.
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We have some of the finest woods in the world growing right here, and I am fortunate in being able to work with them.

My sources of logs are from my woodlot and salvaged from storm or landscape clearing, then cut on my own band saw mill, this is the most eco-friendly way of producing a sustainable wood supply that I can imagine. Or from eco-friendly sustainable logging and sawing enterprises.

My chair design is my interpretation of the classic English stick chair, the original Windsor chair, from the early eighteenth century. These are not reproductions of museum pieces, but made after much research, including trips to the Windsor chair museum in England, lots of sitting !! and many prototypes, all designs are critiqued by Theresa, who has a wonderful eye for design, and just enough tact to keep me inspired. She valiantly sat in everything I made on my way to this form.
All my work comes with a lifetime guarantee, if any part should fail in my lifetime I will fix it.

I also custom build chairs to suit different builds, all I need are your height, weight, and inside leg measurement.

I work in an 18th century style with 20th century luxuries and 21st century design.